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Our mission is to make building AI-powered software as easy as building a modern web application and help developers build the next generation of applications. We offer both open source and fully managed cloud deployments.\n\nThis role requires a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with customers and partners, accelerating adoption through direct engineering contributions. Responsibilities include deploying, optimizing, and extending Spice.ai solutions in production environments, while collaborating on product improvements.\n\nIf open source, distributed systems, and real-world search & AI deployment drive you, apply.\n\nWho We Are Looking For\n\nAn exceptional engineer.\n\nA problem solver who starts with customer problems and solves them with technology.\n\nA thinker who challenges the status quo, rejects the current world model, and builds better for everyone.\n\nA positive force who asks what's possible instead of focusing on limitations.\n\nSomeone who views work as meaningful, not just a job.\n\nComfortable with ambiguity and unknowns, leading by creating clarity.\n\nPassionate about high performance with high standards.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\n\n5+ years in engineering roles, with focus on deploying data, search, and AI systems in enterprise environments.\n\nExperience designing, implementing, and scaling production database engines, distributed systems, search engines, and data & AI pipelines.\n\nTrack record of strong design, architectural, engineering, and product decisions in customer-facing contexts.\n\nExcellent communication skills.\n\nAbility to ramp up quickly and deliver impact.\n\nContributions to open-source projects preferred.\n\nExperience with Apache infrastructure, CNCF stack, or cloud-native development.\n\nDeep knowledge of databases, data warehousing, data lakes, search, virtualization, and mesh principles.\n\nProficiency with Databricks, Snowflake, Starburst, Dremio, ElasticSearch, or similar.\n\nStrong SQL skills in queries, syntax, modeling, and optimizations.\n\nFamiliarity with data storage like HDFS, Amazon S3, and relational databases.\n\nSkills in data integration, including ETL/ELT, ingestion, and transformation.\n\nAbility to tune performance and optimize systems.\n\nKnowledge of data security, privacy, authentication, authorization, and encryption.\n\nProblem-solving for complex data challenges.\n\nPresentation skills for technical and executive audiences.\n\nAbility to explain concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nRelationship-building with customers and partners.\n\nWillingness to travel 20%+ based on customer needs.\n\nIn This Role, You'll\n\nEmbed with enterprise customers and partners to deploy Spice.ai OSS/Enterprise and Cloud Platform in production.\n\nBuild, configure, and optimize proof-of-concepts and deployments for performance, scalability, and security.\n\nCollaborate with engineering to incorporate customer feedback into core product features.\n\nResolve technical blockers, debug issues, and extend Spice.ai capabilities on-site or remotely.\n\nDesign end-to-end architectures using Spice.ai for data querying, search, and AI inference.\n\nIdentify expansion opportunities and drive adoption of new features.\n\nWork side-by-side with founders as a leader in customer success engineering.\n\nContribute to Spice.ai OSS improvements based on real-world usage.\n\nOwn initiatives to refine offerings and deliver superior developer experiences.\n\nYour First 90 Days\n\nFirst week: Deploy a Spice.ai instance for a customer scenario and fix a deployment issue.\n\nFirst month: Ramp up, lead a POC deployment, and contribute optimizations to Spice.ai OSS.\n\n30-60 days: Take ownership of a customer deployment area, from architecture to production rollout.\n\n60-90 days: Propose and execute a technical strategy for scaling customer integrations.\n\n#J-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Spice","rawCompany":"spice","city":"Seattle","state":"WA","isRemote":false,"isActive":true,"createdAt":"2026-06-17T04:11:53.773Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1243.01","title":"Data Warehousing Specialists","slug":"data-warehousing-specialists"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Forward Deployed Engineer (Rust)","description":"Building data-driven AI applications and agents is too complex, even for advanced developers.\n\nThis new generation of applications need fast, secure access to data across disparate systems, the ability to search and reason over that data, and infrastructure that’s reliable enough to run in production. 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